© Reuters. A migrant lady drinks a beverage whereas she is helped by law enforcement officials, after she handed out as whereas participating in a caravan heading to Mexico Metropolis, in El Fortin, Mexico October 29, 2021. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – About 3,000 principally Central American migrants superior slowly on Friday alongside a freeway close to Mexico’s border with Guatemala after some rejected overtures from immigration brokers to cease, preferring as an alternative to take their probabilities on the northern trek.
The caravan made up of principally of ladies and kids arrived earlier within the day within the city of Acacoyagua, advancing 24 miles (38 km) from a earlier cease in one other southern Mexican hamlet, simply past the border metropolis of Tapachula, the place the migrants started their journey.
Migrants advocate Irineo Mujica, one of many caravan’s leaders, mentioned migrants principally rejected the supply of so-called humanitarian visas from the brokers in alternate for ending their journey. The migrants additionally would have needed to report back to authorities shelters and consent to be moved to different states, Mujica mentioned.
He added that many have been distrustful of the migration officers attributable to what he described as damaged guarantees prior to now, in addition to some arrests and deportations.
The humanitarian visas would have quickly regularized the migrants’ authorized standing in Mexico whereas granting them entry to public companies like healthcare, in addition to the power to work.
A press officer with the nationwide migration institute mentioned he couldn’t present any info on negotiations over the visas.
It stays unclear if the Mexican authorities will search to interrupt up the caravan. Earlier caravans have confronted off with migration brokers and troopers who’ve more and more used powerful ways to stem the tide of fleeing migrants, lots of whom wish to escape violent gangs and grinding joblessness again house. Others are in search of asylum protections.
The Mexican authorities is underneath strain from U.S. authorities to assist scale back the circulate and has deployed hundreds of police and nationwide guard troopers to take action in current months.
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